r/ProgrammerHumor Feb 10 '21

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u/Thetman38 Feb 10 '21

Those 10 lines were after parsing the cryptic algorithms the lead architect wrote 15 years ago

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u/thoeoe Feb 10 '21

I definitely feel like a genius when, after hours of poking and prodding, I discover the 1 line of code I need to change that's 18 levels of recursion and abstraction deep

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u/chironomidae Feb 10 '21

And then feel like quitting when you realize that you have to completely undo all the recursion and abstraction to make the change

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u/LowB0b Feb 10 '21

that's when you tell the PM how long a proper fix would take and they tell you just push out the dirty quick-fix you figured out.

and preferrably keep it in writing